Airpocalypse!!! For once, it seems that the media's crazy names for things aren't that off the mark. This looks and sounds nasty. I think China always causes an interesting debate in my own head. Obviously, I think that they should be doing more for the environment (among other things, but that's a little off topic). However, other countries use so many of the raw materials produced in China, it's hard for environmental regulations to keep pace with demand. One quotation from the article really brings that point home:
"Meanwhile, the Global Times has been pointing out China's role as the global factory and the "biggest construction site in the world"...Seventy percent of global iron and steel, and about half of the world's cement is produced in China," it says in an editorial. "Against this backdrop, it is impossible for China to be as clean as the West.""
